get maximum UI view size?

[sloanlance]

I'm working with ui.View to programmatically display a grid of buttons on the screen of my device. I'm not using a "pyui" for this because it's pretty easy to do with a loop and should allow the grid to adapt to various device screen sizes.

I'd like to know whether there is a way to query the device for the maximum size of its screen. It would be nice if this query could be done before presenting a view. So far, the idea I came up with was to create a view object of enormous proportions and after it's been made visible with present(), then read its height and width attributes.

[omz]

You can use ui.get_screen_size() for this.

[sloanlance]

Thank you!